Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:48:16 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports |
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Alan Cox wrote: >> The key requirement is per-port control. Ideally via hdparm or another >> userspace tool, but kernel command line (module options) or sysfs would >> be just fine too. And agreed, the minimal you need is simply 1/0 for >> the port's policy. > > We don't need it per port Jeff, you are being quite silly here. Right now > its permanently foo=0 for all ports and nobody has suffered anything too > horrible so being able to turn it off for all ports is clearly quite > sufficient for the neat future.
Er, huh? foo=0 means hotplug continues to work on the unused ports. Nobody has suffered because we default to enabling all the goodies.
Jeff
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